The Judgment of the Crows: Parables and Fables

Title

en_US The Judgment of the Crows: Parables and Fables

Description

en_US Steven Carter

Creator

en_US Carter, Steven See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:09Z

en_US 2010-08

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US I just reviewed Steven Carter's 2010 book After Aesop. Before I get into the book itself, I need to ask: Is this a Printed upon Demand book? Notice as you begin this book that its last thirty-seven pages are Improvisations upon Aesop's Fables. I started with these. They are good. Carter has a lively sense of fable. Does he quote himself when he does The donkey and the magic potion (121)? I hope so, because I have seen exactly this rendering sometime very recently! I begin to think that this book got him going on the other one…. Carter is often somewhere between Aesop and Bierce. I give at least one prize to The vixen and the lioness: Always take quality over quantity, except in the case of only children, who, often as not, are spoiled rotten (130). Another prize goes to The lion, the fox, and the stag (135). It has a great surprise ending. A sampling of the early stories finds them provocative. In The Two Women (6), one woman consoles another betrayed by her lover: You will find another. The woman betrayed answers I am weeping for that time in the future when I shall have no cause to weep! One to a page, I find these fables and parables thought-provoking. Bravo, Steven Carter!

Identifier

en_US 9780761848202 (pbk. : alk. paper)

en_US 7182 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82459

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Hamilton Books: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

en_US Lanham, MD

Subject

en_US PS3603.A7789 J83 2009 See all items with this value

en_US Steven Carter See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole